This mixed media collage is part of a collection completed in 2023 meant to inspire a recognition of ourselves in the natural world.  So often we visit nature when it is convenient for us and then go back to living as if we are separate from it. As an ecologist, I know we are nature.  It is us.  There is no separation.  What we do to the natural world we do to ourselves. And what holds true for the natural world, holds true for us as well.  I love all the ways we can see ourselves in other living creatures.  When children play tag, they often remind me of schooling fish, following each other in their own game of tag.  This piece reminds us that we share so many of these common threads.  It includes the sentiment, “Remember your true nature.”